After leaping into the Top 10 last week, Paloma Faith jumps to No.1 this week with “Only Love Can Hurt like This” which also gains a Gold (●) sales certification in the process.

With the song being played across radio, and for the past couple of weeks on Channel 7’s ‘Winners & Losers’, the song is the first Top 50, Top 10 and No.1 single in Australia for Paloma, plus we’re the first country to make it a No.1 hit, the song having peaked at No.6 in England and No.5 in Scotland back in mid-May. “Only Love Can Hurt like This” becomes the 1021st No.1 single in Australia (1940 to 2014) and the 456th for ARIA (1983 to 2014), plus the eighth for this year.

It’s the 66th No.1 single in Australia for the RCA label, their last being by Pink back in February of 2013 with “Just Give Me a Reason”, and it’s the third song with ‘Only’ in its title to hit No.1, the others being “I Was Only 19” (May 1983) by Redgum and “Only Girl (in the World)” by Rihanna (Sept 2010), with the only other ‘Hurt’ at the top being December 1982’s “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me” by Culture Club. It’s also the fourteenth ‘Like’ and the thirteenth ‘This’ to hit No.1 here. The last English Female solo artist to hit No.1 in Australia was Adele for seven weeks from 27-June-2011 with “Someone like You”, making Paloma Faith the 22nd English Female artist to hit the top here, plus she becomes the 116th English act with the 190th song performed by an English act.

After two weeks at No.1, The Madden Brothers drop down to No.2 with “We Are Done”, whilst another British Female artist leaps eighty-three places from last weeks debut of No.86 to No.3 this week, Gabrielle Aplin with “Please Don’t Say You Love Me”, which benefits from an X-Factor performance, and becomes her second Top 10 single after “The Power of Love” made it to No.5 in April. Also jumping into the Top 5 is G.R.L. with “Ugly Heart”, up twelve places to No.4, plus it also becomes their second Top 10 hit after their guest vocalist appearance on the Pitbull song “Wild Wild Love” hit No.10 in early April.

After leaping into the Top 5 at No.3 last week, Ella Henderson drops back a couple of places to No.5 with “Ghost”, but the track does pick up a Gold (●) sales certification, and right behind her, up twenty-three places to a new peak of No.6 is Will.i.am and Cody Wise with “It’s My Birthday”, which they both performed on The Voice Grand Final on Monday night. The song becomes Will’s eighth Top 10 single in Australia (fourth as lead, the other four were as a guest vocalist) and his first appearance in the ten since “#ThatPower” hit No.6 in May 2013. Also benefitting from their live performance on The Voice is Sheppard who sung “Geronimo”, which is back up a place to No.8.

Last weeks highest new entry at No.2 for David Guetta and Sam Martin, “Lovers on the Sun” drops back to No.7 this week, whilst falling five places to No.9 is another coupling; Ariana Grande and Zedd with “Break Free”, and returning to the ten at No.10, up two places, its Charli XCX with “Boom Clap” (HP-9), which notches up a second week in the Top 10.

NEW PEAKS & MOVERS: “Amnesia” by 5 Seconds of Summer rises again this week, up to No.19 now, whilst jumping eleven places to a new peak of No.21 is “Budapest” by George Ezra. After sneaking back into the Top 100 last week at No.85, “Black Widow” for Iggy Azalea and Rita Ora this week leaps up fifty-seven places to No.28 now that it’s the official single from Iggy’s “The New Classic” album (TW-24). Usher and Nicki Minaj climb six places to a new peak of No.34 with “She Came to Give it to You” and after a heart-rending performance by a contestant on The X-Factor this past week, “All of Me” by John Legend jumps back up fifteen places to No.41.

DOWN DOWN: With four entries to the Top 10 this week, dropping down are Tove Lo with “Stay High” (6 to 11, WI10-5, HP-3), “Que Sera” (5 to 12, WI10-11, HP-1x9) for Justice Crew which leaves the Top 10 for the first time, and down six to No.14 is Ed Sheeran with “Don’t” (WI10-4, HP-4), but his “x” album does go back to No.1 this week, so it all balances out for him, and finally “Am I Wrong” (10 to 15, WI10-8, HP-2x3) for Nico & Vinz is the fourth and final dropout. Coldplay fall out of the Top 20 with “A Sky Full of Stars” (18 to 22) and down four to No.26 is Sigma with “Nobody to Love” (now ▲Platinum), whilst Gossling and 360 pick up Gold (●) in sales for “Price of Fame” (25 to 27). “Sing” for Ed Sheeran is also down this week, dropping six to No.33, whilst Nicki Minaj and “Pills N’ Potions” falls seven to No.35. Also down seven are The Hilltop Hoods with “Won’t Let You Down” to No.37 and after leaping up into the Top 40 last week, T.I. and Iggy Azalea fall back eight to No.44 with “No Mediocre”, with Dami Im and “Super Love” tumbling ten this week to No.45. Falling out from last week Top 50 are “Clown” by Emeli Sande (43 to 53), “Don’t Tell ‘em” for Jeremih and YG (45 to 55), “Magic” for Coldplay (46 to 58), and “Already Gone” by Taylor Henderson (49 to 70).

Meghan Trainor is a twenty-one year old singer from Nantucket, Massachusetts, who has been writing songs since the age of eleven. She enters at No.36 with her debut single “All About the Bass” which is currently No.54 in the USA and No.69 in Canada, meaning Australia has placed her higher here than any other country (so far), and she describes her sound being similar to Trinidadian Soca Music (slightly reggae and hip-hop infused).

The Hilltop Hoods release their new album “Walking Under the Stars” on August 8th, and the second track issued from the forthcoming set debuts at No.42 entitled “Pyramid Building”, whilst the albums first release “Won’t Let You Down” is five places higher at No.37 this week. The final Top 50 entry this week is in at No.43, Cheryl Cole and Tinie Tempah with “Crazy Stupid Love”, which becomes Cheryl’s fifth Top 100 entry and third Top 50 placing, with her last chart appearance here being “Call My Name” (under just ‘Cheryl’) which climbed to No.49 in July 2012.

Lower 50: The Voice winner Anja Nissen will be releasing her debut single (not a cover) next week, but for now she climbs to a new peak of No.54 with her version of “I Have Nothing”, whilst The Voice: Kids (Battle Rounds) helps “Halo” by Beyonce to rise twenty-three places to No.57 this week, and The Voice coach Joel Madden and his final entrant Frank Lakoudis performed “Radioactive” by Imagine Dragons on the show, with the original re-entering at No.59 this week. Will.i.am, Anja and his other finalists ZK did a rendition of The Black Eyed Peas single “Where is the Love”, which returns at No.73 this week. The X-Factor saw a contestant sing “Rather Be” by Clean Bandit, which helps it back up six places to No.82 and The Voice third placed Johnny Rollins re-sang his audition song “Beneath Your Beautiful” on the Grand Final, which helps the Labrinth and Emeli Sande song return at No.91 this week, whilst the final re-entry this week is at No.97, Avicii with “Wake Me Up”, whilst Iggy Azalea picks up a Gold (●) sales cert for “Work”, which holds at No.93 this week, and is one of the lowest peaking songs to ever receive a certification, having only reached No.79 so far.

Dutch DJ Oliver Heldens is signed to Tiesto’s Black Hole Recordings label, and his recent UK No.1 single (four weeks ago) “Gecko (Overdrive)” enters at No.71 and features Becky Hill who was a contestant on The Voice UK first series in 2012, where she was knocked out in the fifth week of the series. A few places lower at No.74 is “Alex (Day by Day)” by Darryl Bowen, the song was sung on The Footy Show last week and at every Round 19 match (last weekend). The song was written for Alex McKinnon who got dumped on the field back in March and suffered spine injuries, and the song is sung by a family friend from Aberdeen, Scotland.

English three-piece Daughter land their first ARIA Singles Chart entry this week, by debuting at No.87 with “Youth”, although they have entered the Albums chart with “If You Leave” (HP-50, March 2013), which this song is taken from. The final entry at No.92 is from GO COMET! entitled “Worlds Apart”, and this local act is signed to the Ministry of Sound label, and the song has been used in the promos for Channel 7’s news of recent.

Ed Sheeran climbs back to No.1 on the ARIA Albums chart this week with his second album “x”, giving it a second week at the top overall, twice as much as his original “+” (TW-41) album achieved during it’s 147 week run on the charts.

It’s only the second album this year to go back to the top spot, the other being INXS’ “The Very Best” which initially notched up four weeks from mid-February and then returned after being off for two weeks at the end of March. There are less than 200 sales between one and two this week, with Sheppard (who are the highest digital sellers of the week) holding at No.2 for a second week, whilst last weeks No.1 debut “Burnt Letters” for Taylor Henderson drops down to No.3, and picks up a Gold (●) sales certification (the only album this week to do so).

The third Aussie act within the Top 5 this week is Sia, who is back up a place to No.4 with “1000 Forms of Fear”, and the ‘Frozen’ Soundtrack is back up two places to No.5, having now spent the past 28 consecutive weeks within the Top 10. The last album to notch up more weeks was Bruno Mars’ “Unorthodox Jukebox” which spent 34 of it’s first 35 weeks on the charts (it fell out for a week to #11 in its 16th week on the charts) within the Top 10 (it eventually racked up 38 weeks in total) from mid-December 2012, and the recent nearest feats for longevity have been by Lorde with “Pure Heroine” (21 weeks {accumulated}) and INXS’ The Very Best” (20 weeks {consecutive}). Also the last soundtrack to spent double-digits within the Top 10 was “The Sapphires” (ten weeks) from mid-August 2012, and the last film score to spent 28 weeks within the Top 10 being “The Commitments” soundtrack from October 1991. (side note: “Grease” notched up its 30th accumulated week within the ten from three separate charts runs (78, 91 and 98) in 1998 when it spent a further sixteen weeks within the Top 10).

Rise Against halve their position from last week, as “The Black Market” drops three places to No.6, and the self-titled 5 Seconds of Summer album is down a place to No.7, whilst Coldplay hold at No.8 with “Ghost Stories”. ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic scored his first US No.1 album this week, and here he lands his first ever Top 10 placing, as “Mandatory Fun” debuts at No.9. His previous highest effort was Running with Scissors” which climbed to No.18 in September of 1999, and this becomes his ninth charting album in Australia (eight studio and one best of). The final Top 10 entrant is Gabrielle Aplin with her debut set “English Rain”, which returned to the charts at No.86 last week, and this week leaps seventy-six places to No.10 scoring its first week within the Top 10, as the album previously peaked at No.14 in April, with the climb being helped by her new No.3 single “Please Don’t Say You Love Me”.

NEW PEAKS & MOVERS: Paloma Faith jumps up eleven places to a new peak of No.15 with “A Perfect Contradiction”, surpassing the No.22 peak of the album back in March when it initially debuted, and the album is helped by Paloma landing the No.1 single this week with “Only Love Can Hurt Like This”. London Grammar leap back up twenty-two spots to No.21 with “If You Wait” and Russell Morris is back up twenty-four to No.27 with “Van Diemen’s Land”. Lily Allen started her national tour here this past week (and she’s playing at Splendour in the Grass this weekend), thus her current album “Sheezus” is back up twenty-four places to No.32. The ABC re-screened two documentaries this past week, Paul Kelly and Queen, with both artists benefitting with sales, Paul Kelly’s “Songs from the South Vol.1 & 2” re-enters at No.34 and Queen’s “Greatest Hits” jumps up thirteen places to No.35, also ahead of their tour here soon. Foster the People return to the charts at No.39 with their recent album “Supermodel” (HP-8) and Imagine Dragons rebound fourteen places to No.40 with “Night Visions”. Collections for Cold Chisel (67 to 44), The Angels (74 to 49), and Red Hot Chili Peppers (55 to 50) all climb back into the Top 50 this week.

DOWN DOWN: After a single week within the Top 10, the ‘Jersey Boys’ soundtrack is down two places to No.11, and Hillsong are also down two to No.12 with their “No Other Name” collection after three weeks within the Top 10, peaking at No.2. Lana Del Rey drops four to No.16 with “Ultraviolence” and The McClymonts fall eight to No.23 with “Here’s to You & I”. “The Hunting Party” for Linkin Park drops six to No.25 and then AllDay is down thirteen to No.37 with “Startup Cult”, whilst last weeks debut of “Yes” by Jason Mraz tumbles twenty-six to No.43. Illy is down nine to No.45 with “Cinematic”, and dropping from last weeks Top 50 is Avicii (38 to 52), Jungle (20 to 63), Keith Urban (42 to 66), deadmau5 (45 to 67), Suicide Silence (30 to 69), Pennywise (16 to 70), Fleetwood Mac (44 to 76), Andy Bull (23 to 81), The Vamps (49 to 90), Miley Cyrus (35 to 98) and leaving from last weeks Top 50 are D at Sea (#33), The Pierce Brothers (#40) and Jason DeRulo (#47).

Jessica Mauboy enters at No.25 with her ‘iTunes Sessions’ EP, and three places lower at No.28 is the second album for La Roux entitled “Trouble in Paradise”, with their previous self-titled set debuting and peaking at No.22 (13-July-2009, almost five years ago), but it did spend 38 weeks within the Top 100.

Lower 50: There are NO New Entries in the lower half of the Top 100 this week; only a bunch of returning albums, but climbing back up is Pink with “Greatest Hits… So Far”, up eleven places to No.51 and Bon Jovi’s “Greatest Hits” also back up eleven to No.54. Pharrell released his third single “Come Get Me Bae” from “G I R L” this past Friday, and the album is back up twenty-two places to No.55, whilst “The Very Best of” for The Eagles rises back twenty-one spots to No.57. “Legend” for Bob Marley is back up fifteen spots to No.58 and after tumbling last week “Xscape” by Michael Jackson is back up nine to No.60. Asgeir toured the country this past week and this helps his album “In the Silence” to climb back up twenty-nine places to No.64, whilst Kasabian turn-around and climb back up twenty-two to No.65 with “48:13”.

“The Ultimate Collection” for Whitney Houston rises back up fifteen to No.75 and Eminem’s collection “Curtain Call: The Hits” climbs up sixteen to No.80. Ricky Martin sees his “Greatest Hits” set climb up nine to No.88 and the returning albums come from The Ten Tenors with “On Broadway, Volume 1” (#68), “Hot Potatoes! The Best of” for The Wiggles (#71), “Abba Gold & More” for Abba (#77), “Circus in the Sky” for Bliss N’ Eso (#94), “The Essential” by Johnny Cash (#99) and back in at No.100 is “Platinum” for Miranda Lambert.